Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-22
MISSING LINKS.
Arizona produced 16. 600 600 poun

A floating island has formed in Lake
Apopka, Florida.
In Steuben county, New York. one
day recently, a 60 year-old farmer
married a 16-year-old girl.
The statistics show that philadelphia
has S,034 saloons, of which only AZ
are kept by native Americans.
The river front at Sioux City is
being cut off in huge chunks by the
treacherous whirlpools of the Missouri
A man in Stafford, Kas., has made
an effort to improve on the declaration
OF independence by writing new one.
0, G. Cabot, brother of Sebastian
| Cabot, had only to spell his name
| backwards aud the result was-tobac-
| co.
In New York city many mothers
| give their babes an airing by riding an
hour or two in the elevated railway
! ears.
Clara Erskin Waters is the name of a
| Boston woman who is building q Hin
doc temple in her back yard, to wor-
| ship in.
Miss Batcheler, of Saratoga, daugh-
ter of General Batcheler, is only seven
teen years old and speaks eight Ian
guages fuently.
In the east of London there is a
church where parties wishing to marry
may have the ceremony performed for
seyenpence ha'penny.
The women of the PRESBYTERIAN
Church of this country have raised
during the past sixteen years about
50, $50, 900 for missions.
Nine. Popp, for fifty years editor of
the Bruges JourRol, has written no less
than $4,000 articles, each containing
from 5000 to 1000 words.
Gilbert and Sullivan are said to be
preparing an American comic opera
based on the assumption that Ameri-
cans don't rule their own country.
A law designed to prevent girls
under the age Of 10 years from beg
ging OF peddhng has been admitted to
the statute books of Massachusetts.
Awriter in The Nineteenth Centasrg
proposes the establishment of we'll
endowed Kitchen college for the sys-
tematic training of domestic servants.
At Clarksville, Ca, the Soque wool
en- mill has forbidden any of its female
employees to wear bustles while at work
in the factory, for the reason that
there is danger OF their dresses being
caught in the looms.
There is law in Washington terri
tory compelling the teachers of public
schools to teach physiology and hy-
giene, and if they do not teach the
same they cannot draw school money;
also, if the pupils will not study those
studies they can be expelled from the
school.
Two years ago Lillian e. Linekin, of
San Francisco, employed a detective
to 90 east and look up the antecedents
Of DR.. TOland, to whom the young lady |
soon after declared off" and now the |
detective is suing Miss Linekin for |
81, 800 for his services.
Irving Born of Allegan, Mich, IS
years old, helped his mother wash in |
the morning and then went to Clapp's |
warehouse, nailed handles on 600 peach |
baskets, driving eight nails in each |
basket, or 1900 in all, and then tied |
up the baskets in half-dozen lots. He |
then quit and called it half day.
The San Francisco A1ta boasts that
the voting citizens of that city come |
from sixty different political divisions
of the world, Egypt being about the
only country not represented. The |
American" party certainly stands a
poor chance in a city where there are
%, 348 citizens of foreign nationality |
and 20, 236 born in the United States. |
The San Diego SIN says that a prom
inent resident of National CITY, whose
reputation for probity is thoroughly |
established, points to large grape
vine and deposes as follows: Last
year helped to pick and weigh LAB
pounds OF fruit from the vine | saw
these grapes pressed into 123 gallons
of wine by a man 80 years of age, and |
the most of the product was retailed to
raedical men here and at San Diego at
81 per gallon"
4 few mornings ago at Milledgeville, |
Ga, Mr.. Edward Carrington's atten-
ton was attracted to a noise in the |
yard among the poultry. He soon dis |
covered with the geese Il tall white |
bird. Being alarmed the bird flew in |
a treenear the fence, from which it was |
shot in the neck and killed. 1t proved |
to be crane of the order of grallia. |
1t measured a feet from tip to tip of |
wings and feet inches from the tip |
of bill to end of tail.
The complete skeleton of man. and |
the blade Of an officers sword were |
found a few days ago on portion of |
the battlefield of Antietam by party |
OF Charleston CIV. Va.) fishermen. |
The body was in the midst of thicket |
OF young trees, which probably ac
counts for its being overlooked for so |
long time. There being no clew as
to the identity of the remains the |
bones were inferred by the fishermen
near where they were found.
A Georgia mule fell into an old well |
thirty feet deep. He took his position
in Il sitting posture and was the unwill- !
ing monarch of all he surveyed until |
his excited owner summoned u posse
to his aid. A rope was tied around |
the body of the mule and he was drawn |